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  • THE SPANISH HOLOCAUST
    THE SPANISH HOLOCAUST
    PAUL PRESTON
    Selected as the Sunday Times History Book of the Year for 2012, this is a meticulous work of scholarship from the foremost historian of 20th-century Spain. ...
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    18,75 €

  • MORPURGO WAR HORSE
    MORPURGO WAR HORSE
    MICHAEL MORPURGO
    The bedlam of battle had begun. All around me men cried and fell to the ground, and horses reared and screamed in an agony of fear and pain. The shells whined and roared overhead, and every explosion seemed like an earthquake to us. A stunning wartime classic. In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches. ...
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    9,99 €

  • POYUMS ANNAW
    POYUMS ANNAW
    LEN PENNIE
    The anticipated follow up to poyums, from a singular voice in modern Scots poetry "A second, blistering collection that confronts patriarchy, gender-based violence and societal injustice with tenderness, a jousting wit and not a little righteous fury"--Caroline Sanderson, The Bookseller There isn't a timescale for how you should healYour bad days are valid, your heartache is re...
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    18,75 €

  • PENGUIN ESSENTIALS A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
    PENGUIN ESSENTIALS A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
    ANTHONY BURGESS
    The daring dystopian satire that inspired one of the most notorious films ever made, beautifully reimagined as part of the Penguin Essentials series'Every generation should discover this book' Time Out ________________In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jail...
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  • THE PENGUIN BOOK OF SPANISH SHORT STORIES
    THE PENGUIN BOOK OF SPANISH SHORT STORIES
    MARGARET JULL COSTA
    This exciting collection celebrates the richness and variety of the Spanish short story, from the nineteenth century to the present day. Featuring over fifty stories selected by revered translator Margaret Jull Costa, it blends old favourites and hidden gems - many of which have never before been translated into English - and introduces readers to surprising new voices as well...
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    16,25 €

  • FENCES
    FENCES
    AUGUST WILSON
    From legendary playwright August Wilson comes the powerful, stunning dramatic bestseller that won him critical acclaim, including the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize.Troy Maxson is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body an...
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  • EVERYTHING TO PLAY FOR
    EVERYTHING TO PLAY FOR
    JAMES HARKIN / ANNA PTASZYNSKI
    Hop, skip and jump into this wonderfully curious grand tour of the world of sports, brought to you by QI Elves and No Such Thing As a Fish podcast hosts James Harkin and Anna Ptaszynski.From sport's weirdest rules to its most unlikely heroes, each chapter of Everything to Play For is brimming with surprising facts and intriguing stories, including the psychology of soccer chant...
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    18,75 €

  • LINDA MCCARTNEY'S FAMILY KITCHEN
    LINDA MCCARTNEY'S FAMILY KITCHEN
    LINDA MCCARTNEY / PAUL MCCARTNEY / STELLA MCCARTNEY / MARY MCCARTNEY
    Join the McCartney family for a feast of nearly 100 sustainable, plant-based recipes to save the planet and nourish the soul, in this deeply personal cookbook from Paul, Mary, and Stella honoring their late wife and mother, Linda McCartney "I have a passion for peace and believe it starts with compassion to animals." --Linda McCartney Linda McCartney was a trailblazer of meat-f...
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    43,75 €

  • ARISTOTLE
    ARISTOTLE
    JOHN SELLARS
    'John Sellars excels at writing short books for a general audience on ancient philosophy. . . A great way into one of the greatest philosophers of all time' Nigel Warburton, Five Books Why has Aristotle had such an astounding influence on the world? What are his key ideas? What can he still teach us today? The Lyceum in Athens, now a ruin, has a claim to be the most significan...
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    13,75 €

  • HOW TO SOLVE IT
    HOW TO SOLVE IT
    GEORGE PÓLYA
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    13,75 €

  • DIFFERENT TIMES
    DIFFERENT TIMES
    DAVID STUBBS
    A history of the great Britishcomedy tradition of the twentieth century to the present day.They don't make comedy like they used to . . . From the slapstick comedy of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel, the surrealism of Spike Milligan and Monty Python, and the golden age of political incorrectness helmed by Benny Hill, to the alternative scene that burst forth following the punk ...
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    24,99 €

  • A SKY BEYOND THE STORM
    A SKY BEYOND THE STORM
    SABAA TAHIR
    Prepare for the jaw-dropping finale of Sabaa Tahir's beloved New York Times bestselling An Ember in the Ashes fantasy series, and discover: Who will survive the storm? Picking up just a few months after A Reaper at the Gates left off... The long-imprisoned jinn are on the attack, wreaking bloody havoc in villages and cities alike. But for the Nightbringer, vengeance on his ...
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    12,50 €

  • THE HAPPINESS TRAP 2ND EDITION
    THE HAPPINESS TRAP 2ND EDITION
    RUSS HARRIS
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    16,49 €

  • DEEP WATER
    DEEP WATER
    PATRICIA HIGHSMITH
    GENERAL & LITERARY FICTION. Melinda Van Allen is beautiful, rebellious, tempestuous and sexy. Unfortunately for wealthy socialite Vic Van Allen, she is his wife. An incorrigible flirt, Melinda spares no opportunity to flaunt her many lovers to her husband. In response, Vic doesn't miss an opportunity to let them know that he's the jealous type. When Malcolm McRae, one of Melind...
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    11,25 €

  • THE BOOK OF FORM & EMPTINESS
    THE BOOK OF FORM & EMPTINESS
    RUTH OZEKI
    WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022When a book and a reader are meant for each other, both of them know it . . . After the tragic death of his father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house and sound variously pleasant, angry or sad. Then his mother develops a hoarding problem, and the voices grow more clamorous. ...
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  • THE POPPY WAR
    THE POPPY WAR
    R. F. KUANG
    Winner of the Reddit Fantasy Award for Best Debut 2018 'The best fantasy debut of 2018' - WIRED A brilliantly imaginative epic fantasy debut, inspired by the bloody history of China's twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic. When Rin aced the Keju - the test to find the most talented students in the Empire - it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials...
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  • SUNBURN
    SUNBURN
    CHLOE MICHELLE HOWARTH
    ** Shortlisted for the 2023 Nero Book Award for Debut Fiction ** ** An Evening Standard 'One to Watch in 2023 ** ** An Independent 'Best Romantic Summer Reads' ** ** A Book of the Month pick for Diva, Irish Examiner, Novellic & Sainsbury's Magazine ** ** A Most Anticipated pick for PinkNews & Queer on the Street ** It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore...
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    13,75 €

  • BEFORE WE SAY GOODBYE
    BEFORE WE SAY GOODBYE
    TOSHIKAZU KAWAGUCHI
    The fourth novel in the sensational 'Before the Coffee Gets Cold' series featuring cafe regulars, with the same time-travelling offer, back in the Tokyo cafe - if customers follow the rules. ...
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    18,75 €

  • SPAIN
    SPAIN
    SIMONE AND INÉS ORTEGA / FERRAN ADRIÀ / JAVIER MARISCAL
    The bestselling book on traditional and authentic Spanish home cooking, with 1,080 easy-to-follow recipesSpanish cooks have trusted and relied on this traditional home-cooking companion ever since it was first published over 40 years ago, with millions of copies sold to date. True to its original title (1080 recetas de cocina) it contains a comprehensive collection of 1,080 aut...
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    49,95 €

  • A PIPELINE RUNS THROUGH IT
    A PIPELINE RUNS THROUGH IT
    KEITH FISHER
    'Fascinating revelations' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'Wonderfully detailed and colourful' Steven Poole, Daily Telegraph 'The book I have long been waiting for... Essential reading' Michael Klare Petroleum has always been used by humans: as an adhesive by Neanderthals, as a waterproofing agent in Noah's Ark and as a weapon during the Crusades. Its eventual extraction from the e...
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    23,75 €

  • THE JUDGE'S LIST
    THE JUDGE'S LIST
    JOHN GRISHAM
    ***THE SUNDAY TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH*** 'Besides the usual Grisham virtues of an arresting idea, polished plotting and vivid social snapshots, what's impressive here is his willingness to take on fresh challenges' THE SUNDAY TIMES Nonstop suspense from the Sunday Times bestselling author: Investigator Lacy Stoltz follows the trail of a serial killer, and closes in on a s...
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    11,25 €

  • BRIGADISTES
    BRIGADISTES
    JORDI MARTÍ-RUEDA
    'A real treasure that we can't stop exploring' - La Republica Fanny Schoonhey was said to be the bravest woman in Barcelona. Felicia Browne decided it was time to put down her paintbrushes and pick up a rifle. The Nielsen brothers took three bicycles and pedalled from Copenhagen to the Pyrenees... In 1936 something extraordinary happened. As the threat of fascism swept across...
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    16,25 €

  • POLITICS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
    POLITICS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
    GEORGE ORWELL
    'Politics and the English Language' is widely considered Orwell's most important essay on style. Style, for Orwell, was never simply a question of aesthetics; it was always inextricably linked to politics and to truth.'All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.When the general atmosphere is bad, language mu...
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    3,75 €

  • THE MAGICIAN'S LAND
    THE MAGICIAN'S LAND
    LEV GROSSMAN
    Quentin has been cast out of Fillory. Alone and adrift, he returns to Brakebills, the school of magic where it all began. But he can't hide from his past. His new path will take him through a world of grey and uncertain magic, from Antarctica to theenchanted Neitherlands. But all roads lead back to Fillory. The magical barriers are failing and the realm faces destruction. To sa...
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  • PASSIONS IN DEATH
    PASSIONS IN DEATH
    J. D. ROBB
    The brand-new crime thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author, J, D. Robb. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer On a hot August night, Lt. Eve Dallas is called to a downtown club, where a joint bachelorette party full of love, friendship and laughter has taken a darker turn and ended in a crime scene. One of the brides has been garroted in a private room and li...
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  • OUT OF OUR MINDS
    OUT OF OUR MINDS
    FELIPE FERNÁNDEZ-ARMESTO
    'Immensely learned and ambitious...seam-bursting eclecticism and polymathic brio... This is by any standards a significant book and its author deserves high praise.' Literary Review To imagine - to see that which is not there - is the startling ability that has fuelled human development and innovation through the centuries. As a species we stand alone in our remarkable capaci...
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  • THE DREAM OF THE POEM
    THE DREAM OF THE POEM
    PETER COLE
    Hebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish poetry written since the Bible. Fusing elements of East and West, Arabic and Hebrew, and the particular and the universal, this verse embodies an extraordinary sensuality and intense faith that transcend the limits of language, place, and time. Peter Cole's tr...
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    37,50 €

  • WHAT WE TRIED TO BURY GROWS HERE
    WHAT WE TRIED TO BURY GROWS HERE
    JULIAN ZABALBEASCOA
    * Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist * "Daring... In What We Tried to Bury Grows Here, almost two dozen narrators vie to convey the danger and uncertainty of life in a country where "tomorrow you never knew who would throw you against the wall for the actions of today." We hear from priests and soldiers, mothers and children, prisoners and refugees. Amid the inevitable viol...
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    25,50 €

  • SCORPIA RISING
    SCORPIA RISING
    ANTHONY HOROWITZ
    A dark and shocking conclusion to the bestselling Alex Rider missions. This gripping final mission brings together Alex Rider's old enemies to frame the teenage superspy in an unstoppable plot of revenge, from which he can never return. Pursued from Europe to North Africa and Cairo's city of the dead - this is the twistiest and most deadly plot of any Alex Rider mission yet, an...
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    9,99 €

  • LIFE IN TECHNICOLOR
    LIFE IN TECHNICOLOR
    DEBS WILD / MALCOLM CROFT
    "Coldplay: Life in Technicolor delves deep into the band's popularity, analysing their career album by album and giving previously unknown insights into Coldplay's creative process. Written by Debs Wild and Malcolm Croft, who have known and worked with the band intimately from their very first gigs, this book is the result of unparalleled access into the inner workings of the m...
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    31,25 €